Helmut Koch: Curriculum Vitae

Scientific Career

1960-1966:

Study of physics at the Technical University in Aachen/Germany

1966-2006:

1966-1969: PhD-Student at the University of Karlsruhe

1969: PhD-Degree, Scientific Assistant at the University of Karlsruhe

1973: Habilitation, Apl. Professor at the University of Karlsruhe

1980: Professor (C3) at the University of Karlsruhe

1990: Full Professor (C4) at the Ruhr-University Bochum

2006: Prof. em.

1966-1980:

Delegated to CERN

1974-1997

Responsible for research groups at CERN and PSI (then SIN)

1978/79:

Sabbatical at SLAC/Stanford University

1989, 1994:

Research Associate at CERN

Scientific Activities

1966-1978:

Extensive measurements on exotic atoms at CERN and PSI (then SIN)

1978-1982:

Search for bound Antiproton-Proton systems at CERN

1982:

Participation in proposing and realizing the LEAR-project (Low Energy Antiproton Ring) at CERN

1983-1984:

Technical coordinator of the EHF-project (European Hadron Facility)

1984-1986:

Measurements on antiprotonic atoms at LEAR

1985-2000:

Design and set-up of the Crystal Barrel experiment at LEAR. Data taking and analysis.

First spokesperson of the international Crystal Barrel Collaboration

1992-2006:

Participation in the TOF-Collaboration at COSY (Forschungszentrum Juelich) and in the CB-ELSA-Collaboration at ELSA (Bonn University)

Since 1995:

Participation in the BaBar-project at SLAC/Stanford

Since 1998:

Initiation of the antiprotonic part of the FAIR-project/Darmstadt.

Participation in the PANDA-Collaboration

University and Research Committees

1976-1994:

Member of the Advisory Board of the German Ministery for Research (bmb+f) for Hadron Physics

(Co-Chair from 1979-1982)

1982-1986:

Participation in the Study Group for an European Hadron Facility (1983/84 as Technical Coordinator)

1983-1990:

Member of ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators) at CERN

1991-1994:

Chairman of the Program Committee for the experimental program at ELSA/Bonn

1993-1996:

Member of the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the experimental program of MAMI/Mainz

1997-2000:

Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the Ruhr University Bochum

1998-2001:

Chairman of the Department of Hadrons and Nuclei of the German Physical Society (DPG)

1999-2002:

Member of the Executive Board of the BaBar experiment at SLAC

2000-2006:

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Forschungszentrum Juelich

2002-2006:

Member of the Senate of the Ruhr University Bochum

2003-2006:

Member of the Executive Committee of the German Physical Society (DPG)

Since 2002:

Member of the Management Board of the EC project I3 Hadron Physics (FP6)

Since 2007:

Member of the Steering Committee for the EC proposal Hadron Physics 2 (FP7)

Conference Organization

1976-1982:

Biennual Workshops on Hadronic Physics

1983-2008:

Member of Advisory Boards for numerous National and International Conferences

1984:

Workshop on the Future of Intermediate Energy Physics in Europe, Freiburg

1996:

LEAP96, International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics, Dinkelsbuehl

1998-2001:

Spring Meetings of the German Physical Society (Hadrons and Nuclei) in Bochum,Freiburg,Dresden,Erlangen

2003:

Hadron03, X. International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Aschaffenburg

2006:

Workshop on Observables in Antiproton-Proton Interactions and their Relevance to QCD, ECT*, Trento

Publications

More than 500 in Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings.